The 1229 Treaty between Smolensk, Riga and
Gotland (version A)

Introduction and Encoding

This document contains an electronic
text edition of version A of the 1229 Trade and Peace Treaty of Mstislav
Davidovi^c of Smolensk between Riga and Gotland on the one hand and Smolensk
on the other.

The edition is based on the facsimile in
Sumnikova and Lopatin (1963). In the notes
all commentaries in the edition of Sumnikova and Lopatin (1963: 20-25)
are included and all deviations from the edition (mainly regarding punctuation
marks) are mentioned. Observations in the edition by Obnorskij
and Barxudarov (19522: 44-50) are also taken into account.
Following Sumnikova and Lopatin, the trema (two points occuring frequently
above syllable-initial vowel letters) is left out in the electronic edition.
The notation of the trema by Obnorskij and Barxudarov is unreliable.

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References

A comprehensive list of older publications
can be found in Sumnikova and Lopation (1963: 137-138).